Specs Deep Dive
Unitree G1 Specs: The $16k Humanoid That Changed the Game
Full breakdown of the G1's actuators, sensors and onboard compute — and how it stacks up against Tesla Optimus on price and performance.
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China has become the world's largest robotics market — and its most crowded startup battleground. From factory arms and floor-cleaning robots to humanoid machines that can run, dance and fight, we track the founders, companies, history and products behind the rise.
¥300B+
Robotics industry revenue, 2025 (above-scale firms)
8 /10
Humanoid robots sold globally come from China
#1
Largest industrial-robot market, 11 straight years
18k+
Humanoid robots shipped from China in 2025
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Fresh deep dives
Hard numbers, specs and supply-chain breakdowns on the forces moving China's robotics industry.
Supply Chain
China Harmonic Drive Makers: Who's Closing the Gap on HD?
The reducers inside every robot joint. Ranking China's harmonic-drive suppliers — Leadrive, Harmonic Drive rival CMD, and the rest.
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Supply Chain
Top Planetary Roller Screw Suppliers in China
The linear actuator at the heart of every humanoid leg. A buyer's guide to the Chinese PRS makers serving Unitree, Agibot and more.
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Policy & Capital
China's Humanoid Robot Policy & Industry Funds, Explained
Over ¥100B in municipal funds are chasing humanoids. What the national "new productive forces" push means for startups and suppliers.
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Comparison
Unitree G1 vs Kepler K2: The Budget Humanoid War
Two Chinese humanoids under $30k, two very different philosophies. Spec-by-spec, which one wins — and why both matter.
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Industry
The Great Humanoid Robot Race: 7 Companies Leading
China shipped most of the world's humanoid robots in 2025. Meet the seven companies fighting to own the human-form machine.
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Explore the ecosystem
Four lenses on one industry
Whether you're an investor, an engineer, a student or just curious — start where it matters to you.
Development History
From the first demonstration robot in 1980 and the 863 Program to the humanoid mass-production era — how China went from follower to front-runner in four decades.
Timeline863 Program
Founders & Key Figures
Meet the "Father of Chinese Robotics," the professor who spawned DJI, and a new wave of 20-something PhD founders raising hundreds of millions.
PeopleEntrepreneurs
Companies & Startups
Unitree, Agibot, UBTECH, Fourier, DJI, SIASUN and dozens more — the giants, the unicorns and the underdogs of China's robotics landscape.
CompaniesStartups
Cutting-edge Products
From 10 m/s humanoid sprinters and banana-peeling robotic hands to ornithopter birds that real birds follow — the hardware defining the frontier.
ProductsHardware
Why this matters
A trillion-yuan shift, still in its first act
From "world's factory" to robot maker
In 2025, domestic brands overtook foreign brands in China's industrial-robot market for the first time — led by Estun, Inovance and SIASUN. The country that once bought robots from ABB and FANUC now produces its own.
Industrial
The humanoid land grab
Over ¥100 billion has poured into humanoid robotics in two years. More than 47 Chinese startups are chasing a machine that can work an eight-hour shift — and the capital is starting to concentrate on a few winners.
Humanoid
A new generation of founders
The average AI-founder age has dropped to 29. China's robotics wave is being led by PhD students, math-olympiad winners and "genius" engineers — many still in their 20s — who are raising hundreds of millions before graduation.
People
Featured
Five names you should know
Unitree Robotics
The quadrupeds-turned-humanoids champion. Shipped more humanoid robots than anyone in 2025 and filed for a Star Market IPO in a record 73 days.
HumanoidHangzhou
Agibot
Founded by Huawei "genius" Peng Zhihui. Reached a 15B RMB valuation in three years, overtook Unitree in H1 2026 shipments, and is heading for a Hong Kong IPO.
HumanoidShanghai
UBTECH
The first listed humanoid-robot company in the world (HKEX, Dec 2023). Walker S series targets 5,000 units shipped in 2026.
HumanoidShenzhen
DJI
The drone giant born in a 20-square-metre Shenzhen garage in 2006 — proof that China's robotics ecosystem can produce a global category king.
AerialShenzhen
SIASUN
China's first robotics company, founded in 2000 and named after the "Father of Chinese Robotics," Jiang Xinsong. The elder statesman of the industry.
IndustrialShenyang
Fourier Intelligence
From rehabilitation robots to the GR series humanoids. Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7.
HumanoidShanghai
More insights
Beyond the specs
Longer reads on the industries China's robot makers are reshaping.
Why Chinese Robot Vacuums Rule the World
How Ecovacs, Roborock and Narwal turned a niche gadget into a global consumer category.
Consumer
China's Industrial Robot Takeover
How domestic brands beat ABB, FANUC, Yaskawa and KUKA on their home turf for the first time.
Industrial
Inside the Money
How China's robot startups raise hundreds of millions of yuan — and where the capital is heading.
Funding
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